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describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about width

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#50272: describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about width
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:20:08 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> You mean, you'd like to see which characters are "double-width"?  We
> could add that, but on GUI frames that would just confuse, because
> those "double-width" characters more often than not take less than two
> full columns, especially if you happen to use variable-pitch font for
> such exotic characters (something that happens quite a lot).
>
> The width information is only more-or-less accurate on text-mode
> terminals.  I wonder how to avoid confusing users with this.
>
> Does anyone have ideas?

We could have the command only mention the double-width-ness on
terminals?

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